Monday, February 28, 2011

Whale

About 8:30 Saturday morning Amy called me from her cell phone. She and her friend Jennifer were walking on the beach, and they had spotted a whale, near the NPS campground. I drove out there right away. The whale was fairly far off shore (even Amy & Jen had just caught a glimpse of its immense body), and by the time I got there we could only see the periodic spouting of exhaled air from its blowhole. But it was exciting, nevertheless, just to know that one of these majestic creatures was nearby.

If you will be walking along our beach be sure to keep your eyes out for whales, especially during the winter months.

4 comments:

What a great, fog-shrouded, other-worldy view via the Teach's Hole Web cam this morning: http://ocracokeharborinn.com/webcam_teachs.html. And is it just me, or has the Silver Lake Harbor Web cam been down for awhile now?

As you might imagine, I seldom look at Ocracoke web cams. I just go out to the harbor, or the beach, or Teach's Hole to see what's going on. I have not heard anything about why one or more of the web cams is not working. Maybe one of our readers knows.